Edge Hill University

Department Member, English & History

Visiting Lecturer, Film Studies

About

I completed my doctoral thesis on the representation of white masculinities in contemporary Hollywood cinema at the University of East Anglia in 2003. I have taught film, TV, literature, media and cultural studies at numerous Universities in the United Kingdom including UEA, University of Aberdeen, Manchester University, Keele University, Staffordshire University and Birmingham City University. I currently teach at Edge Hill University.

My published work has appeared in numerous collections, including Yvonne Tasker (ed.), "Action and Adventure Cinema" (Routledge, 2004), Ginette Vincendeau & Alastair Phillips (eds.), "Journeys of Desire: European Actors in  Hollywood" (British Film Institute, 2006), Deborah Jeremyn and Stacey Abbott (eds.), "Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema" (I.B. Tauris, 2009), Steffen Hantke (ed.), "American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium" (University of Mississippi Press, 2010), Yvonne Tasker (ed.), "Fifty  Contemporary Film Directors" (Routledge,  2010) and Karen Ross (ed.), "Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. I am a regular contributor to "Film Quarterly", and have also written for "Screen", "Film Criticism" and "Canadian Journal of Film Studies". In addition, I have peer reviewed articles for 'Journal of American Studies', 'Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media', 'NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies' and Nottingham University's online journal, "Scope".

I am currently preparing a monograph on American fantasy cinema for Palgrave MacMillan, co-editing both a book and a special issue of "Journal of British Cinema and Television" on British director Shane Meadows, and preparing an essay for the forthcoming collection "Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion" (I.B. Tauris, 2013).

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